LLM Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Large Language Model (LLM)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 2.03% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £439 - -
90th Percentile £452 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £489 -
% change year-on-year -7.98% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

LLM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 171 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 91.46% 72.77% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 83 79
10th Percentile £129 £149 £219
25th Percentile £151 £188 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% -1.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £507 £563
90th Percentile £638 £634 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 14
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.28 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.18 £15.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.67 £20.19 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +7.68% +6.78%
75th Percentile £49.50 £23.53 £26.71
90th Percentile £51.02 £26.02 £43.70
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LLM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

LLM job vacancy trend in Merseyside

LLM
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 5 £413 - 6
LLM
North West

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (80.00%) Azure AI
2 4 (80.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Firebase
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Pinecone
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) LangChain
2 4 (80.00%) CrewAI
3 3 (60.00%) Gradio
3 3 (60.00%) Streamlit
4 2 (40.00%) Faiss
4 2 (40.00%) LangGraph
5 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (20.00%) D3.js
5 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
5 1 (20.00%) Flask
5 1 (20.00%) Flutter
5 1 (20.00%) JSON
5 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
5 1 (20.00%) Next.js
5 1 (20.00%) Node.js
5 1 (20.00%) React
5 1 (20.00%) React Native
5 1 (20.00%) RESTful
5 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (80.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (60.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Memory Management
2 4 (80.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 4 (80.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 4 (80.00%) Semantic Search
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) API Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (40.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 1 (20.00%) Co-Creation
5 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (20.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (20.00%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Netlify
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI